[Neil Grant] “I need to be able to correctly identify a QT Reference File as opposed to a complete QT File. Is there any information for instance in the header of the file that can be parsed allowing this to occur by an automated process? “
yes there is, but that info would need to be able to be determined by the softwares capabilities.
More often than not it is easier to handle the file size- since most QT Ref files are quite small occupying only one buffer segment for the link and for RED camera proxies they are usually less than 100K for instance.
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